[EM] A few papers on election science I'd like to point out to y'all

[Jameson Quinn]

Thanks a lot! More of us should post stuff like this.

2018-01-29 8:43 GMT-05:00 Arthur Wist <arthur.wist at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry in advanced for the huge load of information all at once, but I
> think you'll highly likely find the following quite interesting:
>
> On how people misunderstood the Duggan-Schwartz theorem:
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07105 - Two statements of the Duggan-Schwartz
> theorem
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07102 -  Manipulability of consular election
> rules
>
> EVERYTHING here:
> https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ssb0yjUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
>
> Some key highlights from that last link above:
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07580 - Achieving Proportional Representation
> via Voting [ On which a blog post exists: https://medium.com/@haris.
> aziz/achieving-proportional-representation-2d741871e78. Better than STV
> and STV derivatives in all criteria? You decide! ]
>
> http://materials.dagstuhl.de/files/17/17261/17261.HarisAziz.Slides.pdf -
> Proportional Representation in Approval-based Voting and Beyond. [This is a
> presentation - and it's outdated by now, albeit it's only from Summer last
> year.]
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10415 - A polynomial-time algorithm to achieve
> extended justified representation
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06030 - Sub-committee Approval Voting and
> Generalised Justified Representation Axiom [This generalizes large parts of
> the mathematics of voting theory!]
>
> And on the topic of committees, not quite from election science, but
> relevant nonetheless:
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2202 -  To how many politicians should
> government be left? [With a p-value of =<10^-6. And no, that's NOT a typo.]
> https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1684 - Parkinson's Law Quantified: Three
> Investigations on Bureaucratic Inefficiency
>
> The above two papers got a bit of news & blog coverage back in the day:
>
> http://old.themoscowtimes.com/article/business-in-brief/
> article/austrians-suggest-small-is-better/article/
> austrians-suggest-small-is-better/362667.html
>
> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/apr/27/
> physicists-quantify-the-coefficient-of-inefficiency
>
> https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080822/full/news.2008.1050.html
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/4221839/Eight-
> people-on-committee-leads-to-decision-deadlock-scientists-say.html
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/numbers-up-for-
> unlucky-eight-nnt5js8jdvm
>
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126902.200-
> editorial-parkinsons-law-is-alive-and-well/
>
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126901.300-
> explaining-the-curse-of-work/?full=true
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
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